Belle's Belief
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Whoever believes in the sun has eternal life, but whoever rejects the sun will not see life. |
| 0:07.8 | John 3.36. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.2 | Bell's Belief was written by Dave Brannon and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:22.1 | John chapter 3 verses 1 through 6, 9, 14 through 16, and 36. |
| 0:29.3 | Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. |
| 0:35.6 | He came to Jesus at night and said, |
| 0:38.1 | Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the |
| 0:43.8 | signs you are doing if God were not with him. Jesus replied, very truly I tell you, |
| 0:50.6 | no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. |
| 0:55.2 | How can someone be born when they are old? Nicodemus asked. Surely they cannot enter a second |
| 1:01.2 | time into their mother's womb to be born. Jesus answered, very truly I tell you, no one can enter |
| 1:09.4 | the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the |
| 1:13.0 | spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit. How can this be? |
| 1:20.7 | Nicodemus asked. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the son of man must be lifted up that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. |
| 1:32.6 | For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
| 1:43.5 | Whoever believes in the sun has eternal life, |
| 1:47.0 | but whoever rejects the sun will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. |
| 1:55.0 | Bell's Belief, written by Dave Brannon. |
| 2:00.0 | Bell wanted nothing to do with her parents' faith in Jesus. In college, she proclaimed |
| 2:05.9 | herself an agnostic and sought to live without God. But a breakup with her boyfriend and |
| 2:11.8 | growing depression sent her on a downward spiral. She thought of ending her life. In those depths of despair, she thought of |
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